AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT Rebrand vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT Rebrand

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 7690M XT Rebrand and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT Rebrand 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 25W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7690M XT Rebrand +1060%

0.696 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7690M XT Rebrand

VS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Oct 2007

London

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

635 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

20.32GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

480

Shading Units

32

24

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.760 GPixel/s

17.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.520 GTexel/s

-

696.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.16 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

25W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Whistler

GPU Name

G84

Whistler XTX

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.716 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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